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Miraj Ahmed is a practising painter and architect. He has worked with Pierre dAvoine Architects and Stanton Williams on various projects, and now with Andrzej Blonski Architects. Paintings and drawings exhibited in London, Cambridge and Marseille.

Bio: Pedro Alonso has practised independently and taught design and theory of architecture at the Universidad Catlica de Chile, where he received his masters. Is currently a PhD candidate at the AA.

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Nuria Alvarez Lombardero studied architecture at ETSA Madrid and the Housing and Urbanism MA at the AA. She has worked for Machado & Silvetti in Boston, and was part of the editorial board of Neutra magazine. She has co-directed Canales & Lombardero since 2003 and has lectured at the University of Seville and worked as a researcher at Harvard University, the University of Cambridge and the AA. She is currently finalising her PhD on the dissolution of boundaries traced by modern urban planning.

Bio: Alisa Andrasek is a director of BIOTHING and an experimental practitioner of architecture and computation. She graduated from the University of Zagreb, and holds a Masters in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University, where she has also taught, as well as at Pratt, UPENN, RMIT Melbourne and RPI. Andrasek won the Metropolis Next Generation Award in 2005 and received the FEIDAD Design Merit Award in 2004. Recent exhibitions include Scripted by Purpose, Philadelphia 2007; Seroussi pavilion and Ars Mathematica, both Paris 2007; the 2003 Prague Biennale; Architectural Biennial Beijing 2004/06/08; and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY, 2005. She curated the East Coast section of the Emergent Talent Emergent Technologies exhibition for the 2006 and 2008 Beijing Biennial.

Bio: Noam Andrews graduated from the AA in 2005 and has since worked for offices in London and New York. He has built his own work in New York and Florida, recently recorded a pop album in Argentina, and is currently engaged with projects in architecture, music and film.

Bio: studied architecture at IUAV in Venice, from which he obtained his doctorate in urbanism, and at the Berlage Institute. He is completing his PhD thesis at the Berlage/TU Delft. Aureli coordinates the second-year research programme at the Berlage and is Guest Professor at the Accademia di Architettura in Mendrisio and at TU/Delft.

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Jorge Ayala was born in Mexico City.He received a Degree in Architecture from the School of Architecture Val de Seine in Paris in 2007 and a Masters Degree on Landscape Urbanism [AALU] in 2008.In 2007 he participated in the 7th International Biennale of Architecture in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and in the 2nd International Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism of Hong Kong - Shenzhen in China. His work has been exhibited in France, Spain and the United Kingdom. Jorge Ayala is based between Paris, Beijing and London currently working at P L A S M A STUDIO on projects within China. www.jorge-ayala.com

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Bio: lectures on urbanism in the AAs Graduate School and has written on the themes of politics and critical theory in relation to the urban. He practises as a consultant urbanist, most recently collaborating with Zaha Hadid Architects and s333 Architecture and Urbanism on large-scale projects, and is engaged in research on urban intensification and innovation environments.